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Action, high stakes and snark, the smouldering first book in the explosive Aurora Cycle series from the New York Times and internationally bestselling authors of the Illuminae Files.

WINNER OF THE 2019 AUREALIS AWARDS FOR BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL AND BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

A NYT, USA Today, PW, indie, Australian, and UK bestseller!

Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the Academy would touch:

A cocky diplomat with a black belt in sarcasm

A sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmates

A smart-ass tech-whiz with the galaxy's biggest chip on his shoulder

An alien warrior with anger management issues

A tomboy pilot who's totally not into him, in case you were wondering.

And Ty's squad isn't even his biggest problem - that'd be Aurora Jie-Lin O'Malley, the girl he's just rescued from interdimensional space. Auri is a girl out of time and out of her depth and she could be the catalyst that starts a war millions of years in the making.

Tyler's squad of losers, discipline-cases and misfits might just be the last hope for the entire galaxy. NOBODY PANIC.

'Us outsiders gotta stick together.'

What the reviewers are saying about Aurora Rising:

'High-paced action, perplexing mysteries and laugh-out-loud snark...virtually un-put-down-able.' The Chronicle (US)

'My favorite book of 2019...wonderful, hilarious, heart-wrenching.' Goodreads reviewer

'A space opera of epic proportions.' Magpies

'An intense story...subtle and clever.' Aurealis

'I wish I could give this book 100 stars.' Goodreads reviewer

'Fast paced, action packed, deviously humorous.' Goodreads reviewer

'Five gazillion misfit, outsider but truly entertaining stars!' Goodreads reviewer

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 15, 2019
      In 2380, Aurora Academy’s Tyler Jones has it all. He’s the most decorated cadet in his year, in line for the best missions with peacekeeping group Aurora Legion, and ready to recruit his dream squad—he just has to get through the Draft. But when a late-night flight reveals a ship that disappeared more than 200 years ago, he follows protocol and rescues a cryogenically frozen human girl, missing the Draft entirely. Stuck with his twin sister and a squad of misfits no one else wants, Tyler resigns himself to making supply runs for the foreseeable future. Then Auri, the girl he rescued, turns up as a stowaway. Now on the run from the Global Intelligence Agency, which will stop at nothing to capture Auri, Tyler and his squad must bring her to safety and probe deeper into her visions of Octavia, a lost human colony in a different solar system. The story is told from seven perspectives, which can make for uneven character development, but coauthors Kaufman and Kristoff (the Illuminae Files series) maintain an exciting, fast pace; a steadily coalescing band of crewmates; and plentiful romantic tension in this entertaining space opera. Ages 12–up.

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  • Lexile® Measure:800
  • Text Difficulty:3-4

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